Adjustable and negative thermal expansion from multilayered systems

Physica Status Solidi - Rapid Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 133-135

  Grima, Joseph N ^a   Oliveri, Ludovica ^b   Ellul, Brian ^a   Gatt, Ruben ^a   Attard, Daphne ^a   Cicala, Gianluca ^b   Recca, Giuseppe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Layered compounds; Thermal expansion

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL MATERIALS; LAYERED COMPOUND; LAYERED COMPOUNDS; LOW CTE; MULTI-LAYERED SYSTEMS; NEGATIVE THERMAL EXPANSION; POISSON'S RATIO; POSITIVE COEFFICIENTS; SOFT MATERIAL; THIN LAYERS;

BUOYANCY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; POISSON RATIO; THERMAL STRESS;

THERMAL EXPANSION;

EID: 77953203267     PISSN: 18626254     EISSN: 18626270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssr.201004076     Document Type: Article

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